The Natural Style in Landscape Gardening 



a national park service to develop these unimagined 

 resources in the public interest. This is an enter- 

 prise worth more to the country than all the armies 

 ever organized and all the navies ever built. And 

 this magnificent enterprise will soon be in the hands 

 of the landscape gardeners; for who can deal with 

 it except the men best trained in the love of the 

 landscape and in the technical methods by which 

 alone it can be conserved, restored, improved, clari- 

 fied, made available and spiritually effective in the 

 hearts of men and women? 



Yes, indeed, the natural style of landscape gar- 

 dening has before it the greatest opportunities ever 

 offered to any art at any time in the world's history. 

 It is high time that this old, yet ever new, natural 

 style received a more thoroughgoing study at the 

 hands of all thoughtful persons, but especially by 

 those who call themselves professional landscape 

 architects. 



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